Teachers--

I am finishing up the continued funding application
(annual grant writing) for OWP.  I want to be sure
that I don't leave anyone out.  I need you to respond
right away if I can list you under this category:

•       You are also invited to list or describe other
accomplishments at your site, including
NBPTS-certified teachers, teachers of the year,
director recognition, publications, and other
noteworthy items.

This report is for the 2004-2005 school year.  Please
let me know if you were Teacher of the Year   in your
school last year.  I'd also like to like to know if
you have been nominated this year.  If you received
other honors or had other articles published, I'd like
to list them, too.

Here are the honors I already have listed:

Starla Howard, Shawnee, was one of the top 12
finalists for Oklahoma Teacher of the Year.

Carmi Scheller received National Board Certification
in November.  That raises our total of NBCTs to 39!

Three of our TCs have had articles published in the
English Journal:

To Search for Enlightenment: Responding to Siddhartha
through Paint and Poetry
Kelly Courtney-Smith and Michael Angelotti

To encourage creative thinking, high school teacher
Kelly Courtney-Smith asked her students for creative
responses to Hesse’s novel, using a technique she
learned from coauthor Michael Angelotti. Students
painted or wrote poems interpreting their reading,
then responded to the creations of their classmates.
The students found that these “collaborative
activities provided insights into the novel, their
classmates, and their paintings and poems.”

 English Journal, Volume 94, Number 6, July 2005



Pedagogical Recycling: How Colleagues Change
Colleagues' Minds
Cindy O'Donnell-Allen

Using the metaphor of recycling along a continuum,
teacher-researcher Cindy O’Donnell-Allen describes how
teachers adapt the ideas of their colleagues with
varying degrees of change based on their different
contexts.

English Journal, Volume 95, Number 2, November 2005

Thanks for your help with this!

Janis



Janis Cramer
Co-Director of Inservice
Oklahoma Writing Project
820 Van Vleet Oval
University of Oklahoma
Phone and Fax (405) 495-4903
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